The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 63
‘In mine?’ said the Princess with great surprise.
What happens: say · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mine | case |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mine | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mine | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 surprise | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 surprise | amod |
| 11 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Princess | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | with great surprise | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent princess=Theme with surprise=Manner |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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